OPTICA Rochester Section Annual Dinner Meeting 2026 (May 12, 2026)

Tue, 12 May 2026 21:30:00 GMT

OPTICA Rochester Section Annual Dinner Meeting 2026

With David Lippman, Ph.D. - Imaging Systems Engineer, Keysight Technologies, Inc.

The Rochester Section of Optica (also known as ROC-Optica) hosts an annual business meeting and dinner featuring an update of the year's activities and a special guest speaker.

The details for this year's annual dinner meeting is as follows.

Schedule

May 12th

5:30 p.m. - Networking
6:30 - 7:30 p.m. - Dinner
7:00 - 7:30 p.m. - Optica Business Meeting
7:30 - 8:30 p.m. - Talk by Dr. David Lippman
8:30 - 9:00 p.m. - Social

Location

This year's event will take place at:

Arbor at the Port

1000 N River St

Suite 110

Rochester, New York 14612

Invited Talk

"Learning Lens Design from Rudolf Kingslake"

David Lippman, Ph.D.

Imaging Systems Engineer
Optical Design Engineering, Keysight Technologies, Inc.

Abstract

Rudolf Kingslake is a seminal figure in the history of lens design. In the 20th century, he spurred a dramatic transformation in the field by championing Lens Design Fundamentals, the title of his famous text. Kingslake is also a seminal figure in the history of Rochester optics. He headed the lens design department at Eastman Kodak for decades, and as a faculty member at The Institute of Optics for 50+ years, he developed the teaching materials for the first courses in lens design offered in the U.S. Recently, some of these teaching materials came to light, including 150+ lens design problems neatly cataloged on index cards. These Kingslake problems offer a fascinating glimpse into lens design as taught in the 20th century and cover a broad range of topics from ray tracing and aberration theory to specific design procedures. This talk surveys Kingslake’s role in Rochester optics, and through his lens design problems, highlights how, even in the computer age, there is much that can be learned from his fundamentals.

Biography

Dr. David Lippman is a lens designer as part of the Engineering Services team for Keysight Optical Design Engineering (formerly ORA). He is an expert in the design, tolerancing, and analysis of high-performance imaging systems. David has experience designing optical systems in use across industries ranging from semiconductor and consumer electronics to aerospace and defense. At Keysight, he also contributes to the development of the optical design software CODE V. Prior to his engineering services role, in 2023, David earned a Ph.D. in Optics from The Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester under the advisement of Duncan Moore, Greg Schmidt, and Julie Bentley. As a graduate student, he was awarded the Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship in Optical Design in 2022. David is also co-author of the textbook Learning Lens Design from Rudolf Kingslake: Problems and Solutions from SPIE Press, published in 2026.

Registration fees and payment

$65 for Non-Member Guests
$55 for Optica Regular Members
$30 for Student Non-Members
$20 for Optica Student Members
No charge for Optica Honorary Members
No charge for Corporate Sponsors up the maximum allowed seats based on sponsor level. Please contact membership@opticarochester.org with a guest list.
Reservations (including guest names) must be made by Monday, May 4th, 2026